10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #21 November 25, 2019

Explanation: Microsoft has launched its ‘K-12 Education Transformation Framework’ to facilitate comprehensive digital transformation of schools in India. The framework is aimed at facilitating comprehensive digital transformation of schools in India. It will provide efficient tools to achieve the ambitious change many schools seek and to thoughtfully integrate technology in powerful and productive ways. The framework is a flexible platform based on the latest research and input from hundreds of academics, experts, and policymakers.

Explanation: Assam Government has announced the launch of ‘Arundhati Swarna Yojana’. The scheme is aimed to strengthen women empowerment and reduce child marriage. Under this scheme, state government will give each beneficiary bride fixed amount to buy 10 grams (one tola) of gold during her marriage if the marriage is registered. The state government will not give the gold directly to beneficiary bride but will provide Rs.30,000 to purchase 10 gms of gold. The scheme will commence from January 1, 2020.

Explanation: The Central Road and Infrastructure Fund which was earlier known as Central Road Fund(CRF) was established under the Central Road Fund Act,2000. The fund is basically a cess imposed along with excise duty on petrol and diesel. The cess revenue was accrued to the CRF which was uniquely created and out of this major road projects were financed ever since its launch. The administrative control of Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) is under the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Finance Ministry.

Explanation: Recently, a meeting was organised under Samarth-Scheme for Capacity Building in Textiles sector (SCBTS) to familiarize the stakeholders about the scheme and its guidelines. Samarth is a skill development scheme under the Union Ministry of Textiles. The scheme aims to provide skill development to the youth for gainful and sustainable employment in the textile sector covering entire value chain of textiles excluding spinning and weaving.

Explanation: The number of global deaths from terrorism fell 15.2 per cent in 2018, even as the number of countries affected by extremist violence continued to grow, the 2019 Global Terrorism Index showed. From a high of 33,555 deaths in 2014, when the Islamic State (IS) group lured tens of thousands of jihadists to the Middle East, the number of terrorism-related deaths has more than halved to 15,952 in 2018, the index published by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) showed.